Copyright: Simple Privacy 0.98 beta2b
Citation: You rule!


Overview

You’ve managed to install this thing, and now your wondering what it is exactly your supposed to do with it.  Well, our primary intention of writing this program is to provide people with an easy way of sending private messages to one-another.  Lets admit it, we don’t really know who’s reading our e-mail after we send it, and when you want to bag in your boss to your friends and co workers, you do not want to find out that I.S. has been forwarding all of your mail to her/him.

This product is still in beta, and will be getting updated at least twice a month untill we finally finish it.  We’re always looking for suggestions on how to improve it from our ‘install base,’ so if ya got an idea, drop us a line at:

CGSI@hotmail.com

and we will personally answer your mail ourselves.  That goes for any comments you may have, so feel free to write to us and don’t forget to visit our web-site at:

http://www.digifilm.com/cgsi


Features

Simple Privacy currently has the following features, for directions on use, see the “How To” portion of this help file:

Simple text editing field with the regular gamut of cut/copy/paste/open/save commands, plus a special “Copy All” button, which is really just a shortcut for the Select All | Copy command sequence you would have to do to get all of the text to the clipboard.

“New” speed-button which clears the edit field.

A nice space in the menu for the integration for a future “Spell Checker.”

“Wipe File” option in the tools menu, which allows you to completely irrevocably eradicate any file from any read/write media.

The ability to send your messages directly from this program, rather than cut-and-pasting into your current mail program.  Or, you can have the “Quick Mail” speed button spawn the e-mail client of your choice.

Show/Hide the toolbar/background bitmap.

Three levels of encryption, Low, Medium, and High for those mission critical top secret highly sensitive information transfers (or something.)


Getting started

So, you want to send an encrypted message. OK, here’s what ya do:

Start the program, you’ll be greeted by a nice blank area for entering text.  Now type all that highly sensitive info about your brother’s uncle you’ve been dying to tell your best friend’s sister.

If the esteemed spell checker was working, this is where you’d go to the Tools menu and select Spell Check.

Now that the spelling is just like you want it, encryption is the next order of business.  You may either go to the File menu and select Encrypt, use our nifty speed buttons, or, for those keyboard hot-key die-hards use Alt+n.

You will see a dialog come up with some radio buttons for the strength of encryption, and some spaces to enter your password.  This is the password that your recipient will use to decode the message.  You do not have to worry about telling them what level of encryption you used, somehow the program just knows.

Make up a good password and enter it into the first field, you are then prompted to verify the password (just in case there was a typo, ect.) and then hit the encrypt button, Bammo! Your message is obscured beyond all human (and most machine) recognition.

You can now save the file, cut and paste it into your mail program, our use our “Quick Mail” client to send the encryption somewhere.